Janet is an accomplished business leader with extensive experience across consumer retail, health information technology, and the human and animal health pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. She is recognized for driving meaningful organizational change, building high-performing teams, and strengthening strategic decision-making.

During her tenure at Abbott Canada, Janet pioneered the company's first formal strategic business planning process among Abbott's global affiliates. She also led the creation of an integrated brand planning framework that aligned the Pharmaceutical, Nutrition, and Hospital divisions, streamlining strategy development. The model was adopted across Abbott's Latin American region and positioned Canada as the first Abbott affiliate to establish a dedicated Strategic Planning function that encompassed brand planning.

A strong proponent of customer-centricity, Janet guided Abbott Canada's shift from a brand-focused approach to a patient-focused one. Under her leadership, Canada became the first Abbott affiliate, and the first organization in the Canadian pharmaceutical industry, to implement customer and patient experience journey mapping and inculcate into the brand planning framework. The initiative proved so impactful that Abbott later expanded the approach across its global affiliate network.

At IQVIA, Janet was frequently sought out by marketing and senior leadership teams across Canada's pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. She supported organizations with market intelligence, analytics, and strategic insights to help them navigate complex challenges and identify growth opportunities.

Janet has built business intelligence capabilities in both entrepreneurial private companies and large multinational pharmaceutical organizations. Her business acumen and analytical strength have made her a valuable contributor to business development and acquisition assessments, supporting evaluations of strategic investments and expansion opportunities. She has been instrumental in helping Abbott Canada secure its most successful co-promotion initiative as well as being a primary player in several major acquisitions at AbbVie.

Across her career, Janet has received awards for excellence in sales, innovation, and organizational integration. Known for challenging the status quo, her success has been through pairing strategic vision with practical execution that enables organizations not just do well but excel.

Iain builds enterprise talent, leadership, and learning systems that raise performance, strengthen succession pipelines, and help organizations move through change without losing momentum.

With 19 years across Canada, the US, and EMEA, Iain has led large-scale talent and leadership transformations for global workforces of 12,000+, closing the gap between people strategy and execution through aligned culture, capability, performance, and modern learning ecosystems.

A key differentiator in Iain's approach is applying AI and data in practical, decision-focused ways. He designs AI-enabled personalization, insight generation, and real AI literacy programs, and develops custom AI agents using Python, Visual Basic, Copilot, and Claude to solve capability challenges off-the-shelf tools can't.

Iain has most recently led global talent, leadership, and learning strategy in a fast-growing international organization and co-hosts the Lead & Learn podcast, where he explores leadership and behavior change with authors shaping the field.

Simra is a creative and results-driven social media specialist. With a passion for digital storytelling and content creation, she develops engaging social media strategies that enhance brand visibility, increase audience engagement, and support business growth.

Simra specialises in content planning, campaign management, community engagement, and trend analysis across multiple social media platforms.

Committed to staying ahead of evolving digital trends, Simra combines creativity with strategic thinking to deliver impactful campaigns that inspire, inform, and connect.

Zabin is an expert in inclusion, diversity, and organizational culture, with a doctorate in the field and a track record of working with forward-thinking leaders across complex, knowledge-intensive industries. She presented research and partnered with organizations in India, Portugal, UAE, England, USA, Canada, and Ireland. She brings a rare combination of intellectual rigour and global practical insight that resonates strongly in the life sciences environment.

Zabin works with leaders to embed inclusion and belonging into workforce development, leadership pipelines, and organizational culture, translating complex diversity and inclusion concepts into actionable strategies that strengthen engagement, accelerate collaboration, and foster the kind of innovation life sciences organizations depend on to grow and compete.

Her evidence-based methodology creates environments where diverse perspectives are valued, people can thrive, and teams are equipped to lead through complexity and change.

Zabin believes inclusion is more than an initiative, it is a strategic advantage that drives innovation, performance, and sustainable growth. For life sciences organizations navigating workforce evolution and the constant pressure to innovate, that advantage can be transformative.

Pyarali is a London-based senior executive with over 25 years of experience across governance and strategy, operations, and finance with dual British-Canadian citizenship. Early in his career Pyarali worked at two Canadian banks before joining EY Corporate Finance Canada where he led the Renewable Energy and Cleantech practice, and was a senior member of their Real Estate and Public Sector teams. He spent 10 years in various roles in the EY Transaction Advisory Services group in Canada, the UK, and in their Global offices in London. Subsequently, Pyarali was CEO and COO of a London-based circular economy business. He currently advises investors, boards and senior management teams on best practices in sustainability integration. This includes materiality assessments, ESG due diligence, credible climate transition plans, governance structures, strategic planning, operations and business transformation, go-to-market strategies, sustainability reporting and communications, and sustainable finance and capital raising.

Pyarali's governance experience includes fifteen years on the boards of two UK impact investors. He presently sits on the Sustainability Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, on the Advisory Council for the Centre for Building Sustainable Value at the Ivey Business School, and on the Research Advisory Council for the Institute for Sustainable Finance at Queen's University. He has provided input to the IFRS, the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, the International Standards Organization, the UK Financial Conduct Authority, and to others on sustainability regulations and disclosure standards. Pyarali holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University, an MBA from the Ivey Business School, and a Bachelor of Finance from the University of British Columbia. He also holds diplomas and certificates in sustainable finance investing, sustainability, environmental management systems, advanced management accounting, clean energy, urban land economics, and impact monitoring and evaluation.

Lucie is known as a Client-Focused Insight Partner. With 30+ years of pharmaceutical market research experience, Lucie offers tailored insight support to brands, strategic teams and others. She is skilled in designing and managing research programs, interpreting market signals, and identifying opportunities and risks in evolving therapeutic landscapes. She focuses on a collaborative, solutions-oriented approach that helps clients clarify strategic questions, pressure-test assumptions, and make smarter decisions grounded in real-world evidence and stakeholder perspectives.

Ria is a senior transformation and strategy leader with 10+ years of healthcare experience driving enterprise and regional transformation in complex, highly regulated environments. She specialized in digital transformation, modernization, governance, and operating models, with a strong ability to turn complexity into clear, measurable outcomes. She is known for connecting business, digital, data, and AI strategies to identify opportunities early and guide organizations through ambiguity with focus and direction. She is recognized for building high-performing, trust-based teams and aligning strategy with execution to deliver lasting impact.

Dirk is an IT strategy and project management specialist with 25 years experience in identifying business challenges and implementing technology solutions that drive efficiency and innovation. He is passionate about aligning technology with organizational goals to achieve digital transformation. He specializes in driving process optimization, IT strategy & project management.

Christine is a seasoned pharmaceutical professional with over 30 years of experience across sales, medical education, and stakeholder engagement. She spent the last 25 years in patient engagement where her responsibility was to build strong partnerships with patient communities and healthcare stakeholders. She is a dedicated advocate for patient-centered care, firmly believing that patients and care partners must be at the heart of all healthcare decisions. Christine worked in the pharmaceutical industry to ensure patients' voices are heard and integrated into decision-making processes, while also promoting access to resources that empower informed, meaningful dialogue with healthcare professionals and active participation in treatment decisions.

Andrew is a biopharmaceutical market access expert, with a history of enabling rapid access to innovative therapies and driving policy solutions with stakeholders. He led strategic negotiations with payers to overcome access hurdles and to strengthen patient support programs in support of improved health outcomes. Andrew's expertise includes leadership roles in federal and provincial government affairs, market access, marketing and sales. Andrew has made significant contributions to the work of Innovative Medicines Canada, at the national (private market operational team) and provincial levels.

Paul is an executive leader with over 30 years of hands-on leadership across the consumer and pharmaceutical sectors specializing in the transformation of supply chain, procurement, and project management functions. His core expertise is a proven track record in process optimization, cost efficiency, and building high-value, resilient supplier partnerships. He partners with clients to navigate volatile market landscapes by introducing operational transparency and driving continuous improvement. His philosophy is to seamlessly align people, processes, and purpose to deliver sustainable, long-term organizational growth.

Catherine is an innovative and accomplished commercial leader with more than 20 years of experience spanning the pharmaceutical and consumer goods industries. Throughout her career with Abbott, Mylan, and AbbVie, she has led diverse portfolios across retail, pharmaceutical, hospital, and institutional markets, working across multiple therapeutic areas and business functions.

Known for her ability to combine strategic thinking with creative problem-solving, Catherine excels at translating vision into action. She has a proven track record of delivering results in complex and fast-paced environments while building engagement, motivation, and alignment across cross-functional regional, national, and international teams.

A passionate and inspiring leader, Catherine brings an entrepreneurial mindset, strong integrity, and a collaborative approach to every challenge. She is driven by a belief that sustainable success comes from empowering people, fostering innovation, and creating practical solutions that deliver meaningful impact.

Mirela is a certified leadership coach, physician, and former pharmaceutical executive with 30+ years of experience across industry and hospital settings. She has held senior roles at AbbVie, Merck, Sanofi, Otsuka, Valeant, and Canopy Growth, with expertise spanning medical affairs, regulatory strategy, and pharmacovigilance across multiple therapeutic areas.

She has led medical strategy across the full product lifecycle, supported regulatory submissions and risk management planning, and contributed to licensing and M&A due diligence. Today, she coaches leaders navigating complex change and advises pharmaceutical organizations on science-driven strategy and sustainable growth.

Mirela holds an MD from the Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Timișoara, Romania, and is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC).

Hayley believes that technology should make work more human, not less.

Throughout her career, she has been fascinated by one question: How can we help people do their best work? Whether that's through better marketing, stronger leadership, smarter processes or, more recently, artificial intelligence, her focus has always been the same, helping people unlock their potential.

With more than 25 years of experience in marketing, business strategy and organisational growth, she has built a reputation for making complex ideas simple, practical and actionable. She has worked with businesses of every size, helping leaders and teams embrace change, improve performance and build confidence in an increasingly digital world.

She combines commercial thinking with a genuine passion for people. She works with the AI Role Plan methodology after recognising that most AI training focuses on the technology rather than the individual. By starting with the role instead of the tool, she helps people discover where AI can create the biggest impact, saving time, improving quality and allowing them to focus on the work that really matters.

She believes the organisations that will succeed over the next decade won't simply have access to better technology, they'll have people who know how to ask better questions, think more strategically and work more effectively alongside it.

Riaz has spent 25 years founding, scaling, and exiting B2B technology and data businesses. He works as an AI transformation consultant, running programmes for UK businesses that have delivered measurable outcomes, including a 42% reduction in operational time and agentic workflow automation saving several hours per week per employee.

He founded and led Radiate B2B, a B2B advertising and account-based marketing platform, where he built the world's first Model Context Protocol (MCP) AI connector for LinkedIn advertising and developed a Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) strategy that ranked the company first or second on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

As COO of data science consultancy Profusion, he scaled the firm from 15 to 100 staff, built a research partnership with the University of Essex that grew to drive 30% of annual revenue, and delivered data science projects for enterprise clients including lastminute.com, where behaviour-based data models drove triple-digit increases in email performance.

His earlier exit includes one of the world's largest video advertising networks, acquired by Silverpop and subsequently by IBM to form its marketing cloud platform.

He has been nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year multiple times, is listed as a Top 25 global thought leader in account-based marketing by B2B Marketing, and is one of the Top Asian Stars in UK Tech by Diversity UK. He writes and speaks on AI and business for the BBC and elsewhere, and mentors early-stage AI startups.

Richard is a lawyer with 25 years’ experience working on technology and data projects, and worked on his first major AI project in 2015. For the last few years he has been working with a range of different industries, helping businesses to safely adopt AI and use it to get real work done, whether by building workflows, agents, swarms and/or orchestrations, using existing or third-party AI tools. Richard is an AI Governance Professional and Certified Information Privacy Professional (IAPP), and can help businesses to use, buy, build, deploy and manage AI solutions.

His focus is on starting with the work that real people are doing in an organisation and giving people the skills to do that with AI. His focus on Solutions and Skills, rather than Tools, means that staff are motivated, the business is not tied to a particular technology, and the results are obvious and measurable.

Vibhuti is a technology entrepreneur, startup mentor, investor and business transformation leader with over 20 years of experience helping organisations turn innovative ideas into scalable digital products and commercial success. As Managing Director of Ennovision Technology Solutions, she has led enterprise transformation programmes across banking, financial services and technology, specialising in AI, Agentic automation, data platforms and cloud engineering.